I am a Microsoft C# MVP, author, speaker, blogger, developer, and creator of WP Requests and WinStore Requests.
I've been involved with computers in one way or another for as long as I can remember, but started professionally in 1993. Although my primary focus right now is commercial software applications, I prefer building infrastructure components, reusable shared libraries and helping companies define, develop and automate process and code standards and guidelines.

The tech “press” has been awash with “articles” related to Microsoft’s recent announcement that Steve Ballmer will be retiring and stepping down as CEO within 12 months. That’s not exactly what I want to talk about. If you read the sentence again, pay attention to the words that I have in quotation ...

What is Bootstrap Flat? To put it simply, Bootstrap Flat is a custom theme on top of Bootstrap that provides a flat look to the user interface elements. That means there are no gradients, shadows, or rounded corners. Why? Twitter Bootstrap is probably one of the most widely used CSS frameworks available today. It’s been very well received by the web development community and even Microsoft is embracing the framework by including it in ASP.NET (both for Web Forms and MVC 5). Bootstrap 3 is a significant ......

What is Cadru? Cadru is (hopefully) a helpful utility framework containing new APIs and extensions to the core .NET Framework to help complete your developer toolbox. Cadru is designed to be portable first, which means that the majority of the library is available as a Portable Class Library (PCL) targeting the following frameworks: .NET Framework 4 and higher Silverlight 4 and higher Windows Phone 7 and higher .NET for Windows Store apps This set of target frameworks was chosen to provide Cadru ......